Word: reaffirmations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was just the point of the outing--one speaker even said she hoped her speech seemed familiar--to reaffirm the demands of the task force and to dramatize Harvard's lack of response since the demands were first presented...
Earlier in yesterday's meeting the CHUL rejected motions allowing one-to-one switches and one-way transfers by votes of 20-11 and 21-8 before voting to reaffirm its support of the transfer freeze...
Said a State Department aide: "The Government doesn't want to mess with grain sales and SALT negotiations." The SALT II talks are stalemated, but Washington was hopeful last week that Moscow would move toward at least an interim agreement. The U.S. has proposed that the two nations reaffirm the agreements reached by Ford and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in 1974, thus indicating readiness to discuss further limitations...
...dedicated to the potential event. Wedding is a collection of such talismen. These photos were intended as documentation of an important moment, but, more significantly, they were created to evoke a mood, inspire some faith. Like votive offerings at a shrine, they do not merely record a commitment, they reaffirm and even manufacture that commitment. Pictures of a marriage are magic, or at least those involved want them...
...accused the Chinese of meddling in U.S. domestic politics. "Mao doesn't know what New Hampshire means, much less where it is," said a U.S. Government Sinologist. Most China watchers agree that Mao wants to reaffirm, as part of his political will and testament, the Shanghai communique of 1972 that promised "normalization" of relations between the U.S. and China. By inviting Nixon, Mao is using him to underscore Chinese impatience with the slow progress toward full diplomatic recognition of Peking and with the Ford Administration's emphasis on U.S.-Soviet detente...